If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?

Re:If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It? by throwaway894345 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:45AM (#23802557)

> Those people are not speaking - they are doxxing and actively harrassing employers in order to get the wrongthinkers fired.

This is not “speech”, this is harassment and coercion.

> Second, threats of unlawful violence are not free speech. Threats not to engage in economic transactions that one is under no obligation to engage in in the first place absolutely are free speech.

Threats are never free speech. The law might not prohibit it or it might simply not prosecute it, but it’s never free speech. It’s the same thing as telling someone she must sleep with you if you are to do business with her—it’s quid pro quo harassment, it’s morally repugnant, and it’s most definitely not free speech.

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Re:If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It? by dang on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:20PM (#23804973)

Please stop posting like this to HN, please don't do tit-for-tat spats, and please don't use the site for ideological battle. This site is for curious conversation. These things are not that, and in fact are destructive of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It? by dang on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:20PM (#23804974)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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